Why don't we have more of these?
I discovered a wonderful action figure of Lon Chaney from the famous (and, sadly, lost) film London After Midnight. You can also get figures of him as Erik in Phantom of the Opera and as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
I did find, much to my delight, a series called Silent Screamers Action Figures. These gems include the Frankenstein monster from Edison's 1910 version of the classic tale (in which Charles Ogle played the monster) and Count Orlok from Murnau's classic Nosferatu.
These figures were all sold out at the website I checked. But they're sold all over the place.
How about some other figures?
- John Gilbert and Lillian Gish in La Boheme
- Valentino and Agnes Ayres in The Sheik
- Buster Keaton and Brown Eyes in Go West
- Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston in Girl Shy
- Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky in any of their movies
- Richard Barthelmess and Lillian Gish in Way Down East
- Wallace Reid and Gloria Swanson in The Affairs of Anatol
- George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor in Sunrise
Come on, people! Get with it! Make some!
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I know it would be swell to have action figures of all our shows and movies but that's not the way it happens, it needs to be popular enough for the executives to allow market releases, and sadly, popular enough does not equate cultural.
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